The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-09-01
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a machine Q1aue III the east Will 1lllc-
| foot wheel, and which will run mile
| a minute.
According to Washington CORES
| pondent Secretary Lamar now has his
trousers and his hair both cut in the
| latest style.
The sum of $40, 600 is to be distribut-
ed among the blind of New York, and
as there are five hundred of them each
will get $40.
Buenos Ayres is to have Q new thea
ter that will accommodate four thou
sand spectators. The cost is estimated
I at 100000.
a negro committed suicide in At
lanta, Ga. one day recently because
his wife refused to mend his clothes
and sew on buttons.
Emperor William lately faced the
took his picture before he could say
Jack Robinson in German.
During the late fatal illness of NJ.
Katkoff no editorials appeared in the
Moscow Gazette. There was no one
able to take the chiefs place.
Ex-Atty. Gen. Colt, of Rhode Island,
says it is impossible to enforce the pro-
hibition law in that state, because
juries will not convict offenders.
The Buffalo Courier declares that sit
is safe to say there are rs, 600 people in
Buffalo to-day" that have never seen
Niagara falls nor heard their roaring
In eastern Nevada it has recently
been discovered by chance that the
noble red man mingles manufactured
squirrel scalps with the genuine article.
The police-matron system is about
to be adopted by the Cincinnati de-
partment. 1t is found to have worked
in Philadelphia with excellent results.
The widow of John Casey, soldier
of the Revolution, has just received a
pension. Casey married her when she
was but 16, few years before he died
in 1915.
The London World hears that the
ladies who went down to Windsor to
present her Majesty with fS0,000 were
somewhat surprised at having to pay
for their tea.
Most of the southern iron shipped
north is carried in schooners. Cotton
| manufacturers it is said may save
money by forwarding their products
IN the same way.
Though six attempts have been made
during the past five years to abolish
the use of corsets at Vassar college the
dear girls still cling to them with girl
ish adhesiveness.
The good editor of The Genera On.
" advertiser says he has cut down a
| fine apricot tree rather than longer ex-
pose the small boys of the neighbour
| hood to temptation.
The ladies of Baltimore are ingaged
| in an effort to establish home for the
| mothers, INDECENT widows, and chill
dren of the deceased confederate SOL
diers in the state of Maryland.
A Pennsylvania paper sees an adver-
tisement for ga boy to do heavy work
and comments that "boys who would
be caught by an advertisement like
that are very scarce in that section"
The arttsian well at Pesth, the deep
est one in the world, supplies hot water
| for public baths and other purposes
1t is 3,120 feet deep, and supplies daily
| 176, 900 gallons of water heated to $50
degrees Fahrenheit.
The wife of Henry George is pretty
little woman, accustomed to taking
her husbands vagaries rs matter of
course She is described as a matter
of fact little body, loving her four
children devotedly.
The Russian aeronaut Casloviche
claims to have at last invented a per-
| fectly navigable balloon. In order to
preserve the secret of its construction
he is having the various parts of the
balloon built in different countries.
Preparations are being made at the
Chiselhurst Roman Catholic church for
the removal of the sarcophagus of the
late Emperor Napoleon III. and the
body of the late Prince Imperial to
the new mausOleum which the ex-Em-
| press Eugene has built at Farm
borough.
There is an old-time Methodist
preacher on the Etowah circuit in
Georgia who has to make his fifteen
mile rounds on foot every Sunday. He
has wife and five children and sal
airy or 5000 year. The Atlanta Con-
ststutt0n is trying to raise money en-
ough to buy a horse for him.
The editor of the Cornwall IN. w
Register has watch he has carried for
sixty years, and his father before him
carried 1t for ten years. He says it has
been drowned twice and dashed against
wall, but lis just as good as new"
except little piece broken out of the
edge of the face.
1t is singular fact that one of the
leading county papers in South Caro-
lima, The AbbeUitle Press and Banner,
| always fierce enemy of negro edu-
| cation is printed exclusively by negroes
! while The Baptist Tribune, the chief
colored organ of the state, edited by
two colered men, is printed wholly by
white compositOrs.
Analyses of Brooklyn milk show that
| the average article is adulterated Is
per cent. with water. The milkmen
defend themselves by saying that the
farmer puts piece of ice in the can.
! and when that melts the dealer has to
put in another, and so on, until the
water reaches to the percentage found.
Gen. John Bidwell, who recently
gave elSnI acres OF MS great ranch at
Chico, Cal, as site for the new Nor
| NAL School of Northern California,
went to that State long before the dis
covery of gold. He bought his ranch
of 10000 acres for $4,000, and now it is
worth $2,0O0,000, and yields an income
of 100000. Gen. Bidwell used to be
great wine producer, but his second
wife has induced him to root out all
his wine grapes and replace them with
raisin grapes.
From the Pacific Ocean comes news
of pending royal divorce between
Pomare v, King of the Society Is
lands, and his Queen Marau, the pretty
brunei, who was for time "a lion"-
or should say "a lioness"P-in Paris
ian society when she was STAYING at
the French Capital in 1888. King Po-
mare considers himself the aggrieved
party, having even gone so far as to
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